The LAT also mentions the following from the town where the GIs were captured: “An Iraqi army officer stationed in Yousifiya said that U.S. forces withdrew from the area on Tuesday and as they departed, set fire to warehouses near the electricity plant where the bodies were discovered. Yousifiya residents extinguished the fires after the Americans left, the officer said.”

Finally, from the once relatively peaceful southern city of Basra, a suicide bomber attacked an old-age home, killing five.

The LAT, NYT, and WP all front House Republican leaders putting off negotiations to reconcile the House’s strict immigration bill with the Senate’s more lenient one. That will probably push any overhaul to immigration law until after the November elections, which the papers suggest is a bummer for Bush. (On the other hand: Doesn’t it also put off the prospect of a big, unseemly Republican-on-Republican showdown?)

An LAT piece looks at the limited options the U.S. faces if North Korea does go ahead with a missile test. South Korea has already suggested it’s not interested in helping further isolate its northerly neighbor. In fact the latest “signal” South Korea is sending Pyongyang: broadcasts of the World Cup.